11-Day Tanzania Wildlife Safari – Visit Tanzania National Parks & Zanzibar Beach Getaway
Jackal Wild Adventures welcomes you to Our Tanzania Bush and Beach Safari is our most iconic 11-Day Tanzania Wildlife Safari itinerary for those who are looking for an unforgettable Tanzania holiday experience. During this tour, you will have the chance to visit all the parks in Tanzania’s northern safari circuit as well as have fascinating cultural experiences at Lake Eyasi with the Hadzabe tribe. Finally, you will relax and enjoy the amazing landscapes on Zanzibar Island.
11-Day Tanzania Wildlife Safari Highlights
- Day 1: Arrival Arusha City
- Day 2: Arusha City- Tarangire National Park
- Day 3: Lake Manyara NP
- Day 4: Lake Eyasi
- Day 5: Serengeti National Park
- Day 6: Serengeti National Park
- Day 7: Serengeti NP to Ngorongoro Crater
- Day 8: Zanzibar
- Day 9: Zanzibar
- Day 10: Zanzibar
- Day 11: Departure
Detailed 11-Day Tanzania Wildlife Safari
Day 1: Arrival Arusha City
You will arrive in Arusha through the border point or Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO) or Arusha Airport. Your 11-Day Tanzania Wildlife Safari driver’s guide will meet you and drive you to Forest Hill Hotel. Arusha is situated at the foot of the beautiful Mount Meru. Arusha is known as the safari capital of Tanzania’s Northern Safari Circuit. It’s a bustling city filled with an interesting mix of markets, chaotic traffic, old colonial buildings, and modern conveniences, like coffee shops with WiFi, and an array of great restaurants.
- Main Destination: Arusha (City)
- Accommodation: Forest Hill Hotel – Mid-range hotel located near Arusha (City)
- Meals & Drinks: Dinner (Breakfast & lunch not included), Non-alcoholic drinks
Day 2: Arusha City- Tarangire National Park
With a packed lunch, depart Arusha for a two-hour drive through the Maasai steppe towards Tarangire National Park. As you enter the park, we’ll be greeted by a landscape dominated by majestic baobabs rising out of the acacia parkland, forming a perfect backdrop for the large herds of African elephants wandering among them. Other mammals sharing this habitat range from lions, leopards, cheetahs, wild dogs, and black-backed jackals, to Kirk’s dik-diks, dwarf and banded mongoose, impalas, Beisa oryxes, steinboks, and African hare. You should expect to see buffalo, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, and waterbuck. The variety of birds we may see include the Maasai ostrich, white-headed vulture, African scops owl, and the endemic ashy starling. You’ll have lunch in the park. Later in the afternoon, drive to Marera Valley Lodge for dinner and your overnight stay.
- Main Destination: Tarangire National Park
- Accommodation: Ngare Lodge – Mid-range lodge located 1-2hr drive from Tarangire NP
- Meals & Drinks: All meals included, All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)
5-Day Tanzania Comfort Wildlife Safari
Day 3: Lake Manyara NP
After breakfast at your lodge, you will drive to Lake Manyara for a full-day game drive. The park has breathtaking scenery and is well famous for its lush acacia forest, giant figs, and mahogany trees, as well as a growing population of baboons and blue monkeys. Permanent residents of this park also include giraffes, elephants, impalas, and a huge number of buffaloes. The lake is also home to a large number of hippos.
Some unique facts about this park include the tree-climbing lions, flamingos on the lake shore, as well as the ground hornbill and crested eagle. The landscapes of Lake Manyara are something that can not be described in words, and the game drives along the lake provide stunning photo opportunities of giraffes and buffaloes in the foreground and the lake (and its flamingos) in the background. During this day, some extra 11-Day Tanzania Wildlife Safari tours are possible, including a bike tour or a boat excursion. Dinner and Overnight at Ngare Lodge.
- Main Destination: Lake Manyara National Park
- Accommodation: Ngare Lodge – Mid-range lodge located just outside Lake Manyara NP
- Meals & Drinks: All meals included, All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)
Day 4: Lake Eyasi
Today will be very special and different. You will wake up very early, just before sunrise, and follow your 11-Day Tanzania Wildlife Safari guide until he finds the Hadzabe community, one of the last true nomadic communities in Africa. After some explanations about the community, you will join them in going about their daily morning activities. This experience is off the beaten track and does not feel touristic by any means. The photographic opportunities are out of this world. The experiences you can have with the community include either joining the men on their daily hunt or joining the women on their daily fruit-gathering session. Either way, you will learn about many aspects of the Hadzabe way of living. This will be a highlight of your Tanzania safari!
After finishing your activities with the community, we will visit beautiful Lake Eyasi, a shallow Salt Lake on the floor of the Great Rift Valley.
- Main Destination: Lake Eyasi
- Accommodation: Ngare Lodge – Mid-range lodge located in Mto wa Mbu (Town)
- Meals & Drinks: All meals included, All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)
Serengeti National Park Tanzania
Day 5: Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, drive to Central Serengeti National Park for a game drive in the afternoon. It opens onto the Seronera Valley, a vibrant wildlife area at the heart of the Serengeti. The valley is famous for its resident animal population. One can expect to see wildebeests, lions, elephants, giraffes, zebras, monkeys, baboons, hippos, rhinos, antelopes, many birds and other species. Dinner and your overnight stay are at Camp—Central Serengeti.
- Main Destination: Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation: Budget camping – Inside Serengeti NP
- Meals & Drinks: All meals included, All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)
Day 6: Serengeti National Park
After breakfast at your camp, you will go for a full day of game drives at Serengeti National Park. The Serengeti offers arguably the most scintillating game-viewing in Africa: great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephants and giraffes, and hundreds upon hundreds of elands, topi, kongoni, impala, and Grant’s gazelle.
The spectacle of predators versus prey dominates Tanzania’s greatest park. Golden–manned lion prides feast on the abundance of plain grazers. Solitary leopards haunt the acacia trees lining the Seronera River, while high densities of cheetahs prowl the southeastern plains. Almost uniquely, all three African jackal species occur here, alongside the spotted hyena and a host of more elusive small predators, ranging from the insectivorous aardwolf to the beautiful serval cat. All meals and accommodation are at your Tanzania Camps.
- Main Destination: Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation: Budget camping – Inside Serengeti NP
- Meals & Drinks: All meals included, All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)
Serengeti National Park Tanzania
Day 7: Serengeti NP to Ngorongoro Crater
On this day of 11-Day Tanzania Wildlife Safari, we suggest a very early wake-up to do an early morning game drive (when the animals are more active) and see one of the best sunrises you’ll ever witness. Then we’ll proceed to Ngorongoro Conservation Area, the 8th Wonder of the Natural World. It’s one of the very rare locations in the whole continent where you can witness the black rhino. The concentration of African wildlife is the greatest on the continent.
The crater has a river, several swamps, a soda lake with a great concentration of flamingos, a forest, and open plains. It’s also famous for its elephants which are the largest in the world and have huge tusks. This is due to the rich mineral content of the volcanic soil and its grasses. After lunch, we will have time for a short game drive and then ascend the crater and exit the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
- Main Destination: Ngorongoro Crater
- Accommodation: Budget camping – On the crater rim of Ngorongoro Crater
- Meals & Drinks: All meals included, All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)
Day 8: Zanzibar
Your 11-Day Tanzania Wildlife Safari guide will introduce you to all the buildings of interest and famous viewpoints. Stone Town and its buildings are full of history and stories of the old times of Zanzibar, during the Sultans (Arabs), Europeans, and Missionaries.
Enjoy lunch at your own expense. Later you will park and check out at your hotel, and drive to the Spice Plantation Center where you will be roaming through the fragrant spice plantations of Zanzibar and breathing in the scent of an infused past. Led by a friendly and professional 11-Day Tanzania Wildlife Safari guide, get an exclusive insight into the farms of this 3-hour tour. Nowadays the plantations are à tribute to the island’s colonial past. This is an excellent chance to learn about the island’s turbulent history. After the spice tour, you will then drive to the Warere Beach Hotel.
- Main Destination: Zanzibar Island (Tanzania Beaches)
- Accommodation: Warere Beach Hotel – Mid-range resort located on Zanzibar (Tanzania Beaches)
- Meals & Drinks: All meals included, Non-alcoholic drinks
Day 9: Zanzibar
Relax at the beautiful Gabi Beach (North East). This is one of the best beaches on the island with a relaxed atmosphere and beautiful white sandy beaches with turquoise water that gently rolls onto the beach. You can spend the entire day at the beach since the beaches in this northern-east part of the island are not as tidal. Your overnight stay will be at Warere Beach Hotel Zanzibar on a bed-and-breakfast basis.
- Main Destination: Zanzibar Island (Tanzania Beaches)
- Accommodation: Warere Beach Hotel – Mid-range resort located on Zanzibar (Tanzania Beaches)
- Meals & Drinks: All meals included, Non-alcoholic drinks
Day 10: Zanzibar
For an unforgettable day in Zanzibar after breakfast, the driver will take you to Fumba Village, where you will hop on a traditional dhow boat and sail to the breathtaking Minai Bay, home to a cluster of beautiful, uninhabited islands.
Once you reach the destination, the dhow boat will be anchored in an idyllic spot, allowing you to swim around the island, snorkel along the rich coral reefs, spot the frolicking dolphins, or explore the pristine islets. Your 11-Day Tanzania Wildlife Safari Day will be interrupted by a mouthwatering buffet lunch on Kwale Island, where you can tuck into succulent calamari, freshly grilled fish, huge lobster, and juicy tropical fruits under the shade of massive tamarind trees. After a fantastic day out in the sun, you will return to Fumba Village on a lateen sail back to Warere Beach Hotel-Zanzibar for your overnight stay on a bed and breakfast basis.
- Main Destination: Zanzibar Island (Tanzania Beaches)
- Accommodation: Warere Beach Hotel – Mid-range resort located on Zanzibar (Tanzania Beaches)
- Meals & Drinks: All meals included, Non-alcoholic drinks
Day 11: Departure
Have breakfast at Warere Beach Hotel in Zanzibar. Spend the last hours of your holiday relaxing at this beautiful Zanzibar Beach. Later, you will depart from the hotel for a drive To Zanzibar Airport for your international flight back home.
- Main Destination: Zanzibar Airport (Zanzibar)
- Accommodation: No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks: Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included), Non-alcoholic drinks
End of 11-Day Tanzania Wildlife Safari
11-Day Tanzania Wildlife Safari Inclusions and Exclusions
Included
- Park fees (For non-residents)
- All activities (Unless labeled as optional)
- All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade)
- A professional 11-Day Tanzania Wildlife Safari driver/guide
- All transportation (Unless labeled as optional)
- All Taxes/VAT
- Roundtrip airport transfer
- Meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)
- Drinks (As specified in the day-by-day section)
Excluded
- International flights (From/to home)
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
- Tips (Tipping guideline US$10.00 pp per day)
- Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
- Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees
- Some meals
